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Princeton Review Advanced Vocab Flashcards

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Abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Abrogate

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to abolish or annul by authority; to put down

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Abscission

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the act of cutting off or removing

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Acarpous

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effete; no longer fertile; worn out

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Accretion

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growth; enlargement by successive addition; building up

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Admonish

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to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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Adroit

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adept; dexterous

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Adumbrate

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to foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure

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Anathema

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

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soothing; something that

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Antipathy

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aversion; dislike

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Antithetical

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diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

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Apocryphal

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of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

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Apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

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deification; glorification to godliness

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Apposite

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appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos

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Apprise

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to give notice to; to inform

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Arabesque

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a complex, ornate design; also a dance position

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Arcane

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mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates

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Arrant

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impudent

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Artless

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completely without guile; natural; without artificiality

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Ascetic

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someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark

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Asperity

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severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability

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Aspersion

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an act of defamation or maligning; animadversion

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Assay

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an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test

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Asseverate

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to aver; to allege; to assert

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Assiduous

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diligent; hard-working; sedulous

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Attenuate

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to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner

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Augury

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omen; portent

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Auspice

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protection or support; patronage

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Auspicious

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favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous

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Aver

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to affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate

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Baleful

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sinister; pernicious; ominous

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Bane

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cause of injury; poison; source of harm

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Beatify

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to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

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Bedizen

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to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon

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Bellicose

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belligerent; pugnacious; warlike

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39
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Bilge

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bulge; the protuberance of a cask

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Blandish

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to toady or fawn

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Blithe

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carefree; merry

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Boisterous

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loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint

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Boor

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a rude or insensitive person; lout

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Burnish

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to polish; to rub to a shine

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Byzantine

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labyrinthine; complex

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Cabal

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a scheme or plot; a group of plotters

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47
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Cachinnate

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to laugh loudly

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48
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Cadge

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to sponge or mooch

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Cajole

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to inveigle, coax, or wheedle

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Calumniate

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to slander; to make a false accusation

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51
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Calumny

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slander; aspersion

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52
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Caparison

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to adorn or bedizen

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53
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Captious

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calculated to confuse or ntrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling

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54
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Caret

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an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders

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Cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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Celerity

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speed; alacrity

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57
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Chasten

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to chastise or correct

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Chauvinist

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a blindly devoted patriot

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Chimera

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire breathing she-monster

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Churlish

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boorish; vulgar; loutish; difficult and intractable

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Coalesce

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to come together; to fuse or unite

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Coda

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concluding section of a musical or literary piece

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Coeval

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of the same period; coexisting

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Commensurate

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matching corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount

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Condemn

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to scorn or despise

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Contumacious

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insubordinate; rebellious

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Corrigible

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capable of being set right; correctable; reparable

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Countenance

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to approve of or tolerate; face; composure

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Cozen

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to deceive,beguile, or hoodwink

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Craven

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contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage

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Curmudgeon

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a crust, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope

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Daunt

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to cow or dismay

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Debacle

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rout; fiasco; complete failure

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Decorous

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correct; formal; marked by decorum

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Defalcate

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to embezzle or misappropriate

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denigrate

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to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage

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Denouement

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Deposition

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accretion; depositing;building up layer by layer; official testimony

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Deprecate

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to disparage or belittle; to put down

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Depredate

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to plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner

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Derivative

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unoriginal; obtained from another source

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82
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Descant

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to comment at length

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83
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Descry

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to discriminate or discern

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84
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Desuetude

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disuse

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85
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Desultory

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random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Detraction

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slandering; verbal attack; aspersion

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Diaphanous

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transparent; gauzy

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Diffident

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reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self confidence

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Digress

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to stay from the point, to go off on a tangent

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Dilatory

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causing delay; procrastinating

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Din

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loud, sustained noise

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92
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Dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation

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93
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Disaffect

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to estrange or alienate the affection of

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Discomfit

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to defeat; to put down

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Discursive

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digressive; passing from one topic to another

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Dissolution

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disintegration; looseness in morals

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Distrait

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distracted; absent minded, especially due to anxiety

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Doggerel

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trivial, poorly constructed verse

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Dross

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slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum

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Dulcet

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melodious; harmonious; mellifluous

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Dynamo

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generator, forceful, energetic person

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Edacious

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voracious; devouring

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103
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Edifying

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enlightening

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Effluvia

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outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor

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Effrontery

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boldness; impudence; arrogance

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Effusive

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gushing; excessively demonstrative

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Egress

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exit

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Encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy

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Endemic

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restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous

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Engender

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to cause; to produce; to give rise to

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Enormity

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excessive wickedness; evilness

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Enormousness

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great size

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Ephemeral

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evanescent; fleeting short-lived

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Epicure

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one devoted to sensual pleasure; particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite

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Episodic

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loosely connected; not flowing logically

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Epithet

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disparaging word or phrase

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Epitome

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embodiment; quintessence

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118
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Equanimity

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composure; self-possession

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119
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Equipoise

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equal distribution of weight equilibrium

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120
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Errant

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traveling; itinerant; peripatetic

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Eschew

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to shun or avoid

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122
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Estimable

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worthy; formidable

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Evince

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to show clearly; to indicate

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124
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Excoriate

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to censure scathingly; to upbraid

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125
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Exegesis

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critical examination; explication

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126
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Exemplar

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typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model

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127
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Expatiate

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to descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length

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128
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Expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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129
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Expostulate

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to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct, or protest

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130
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Expurgate

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to remove obscenity; to purify; to censor

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Exscind

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to cut out or extirpate

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132
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Extant

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existing; not destroyed or lost

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133
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Extirpate

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to destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to escind

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Fallow

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untilled; inactive; dormant

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135
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Fatuous

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silly; inanely foolish

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136
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Feckless

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ineffectual; irresponsible

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137
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Felicitous

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apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos

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Fetid

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stinking; smelly; malodorous

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Fetter

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to shackle; to put in chains

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Filigree

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an ornamental work; especially of delicate lace-like patterns

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Florid

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flowery; ruddy; ornate

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Foment

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to incite; to rouse

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Forbearance

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patience; unwillingness to wait

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Forestall

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to act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert

145
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Forswear

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to renounce; to disallow; to repudiate

146
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Fracas

A

noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl

147
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Fractious

A

quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable

148
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Frieze

A

a semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental facade to a building

149
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Froward

A

intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant

150
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Gainsay

A

to deny, dispute, contradict, or oppose

151
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Gambol

A

to skip about playfully

152
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Garner

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to gather and save; to store up

153
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Gauche

A

crude; awkward; tasteless

154
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Gossamer

A

delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere

155
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Guile

A

artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity

156
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Hallow

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to make holy; to consecrate

157
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Harrow

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to distress; to create stress; to torment

158
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Heretical

A

unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma

159
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Hermetic

A

sealed by fusion; airtight

160
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Heterodox

A

unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic

161
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Hirsute

A

hairy; shaggy

162
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Homiletic

A

the art of preaching

163
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Homily

A

a sermon or morally instructive lecture

164
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Iconoclastic

A

attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox

165
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Idyll

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a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such

166
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Ignominious

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shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified

167
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Imbroglio

A

difficult or embarrassing situation

168
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Impassive

A

expressionless; stoic; stolid; unsusceptible to emotion; apathetic; phlegmatic

169
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Imperious

A

commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty

170
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Importune

A

to ask incessant; to beg; to nag

171
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Impugn

A

to attack or assail verbally; to censure; to execrate

172
Q

Impute

A

to attribute to a cause or source; to ascribe

173
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Indefatigable

A

doggedness; tirelessness

174
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Indolent

A

lazy; listless; torpid

175
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Ineluctable

A

certain; inevitable

176
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Ingenuous

A

guileless; trusting; naive; credulous

177
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Inherent

A

ingrained within one’s nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established

178
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Inimical

A

hostile; adverse; unfriendly

179
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Inimitable

A

one of a kind- peerless

180
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Iniquity

A

gross injustice; wickedness

181
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Innervate

A

to supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize

182
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Inscrutable

A

incapable of being discovered or understood

183
Q

Insensible

A

unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected; numb

184
Q

Insouciant

A

unconcerned; carefree; heedless

185
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Insular

A

parochial; narrow-minded

186
Q

Interdict

A

to prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt

187
Q

Inveigh

A

to attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate

188
Q

Inveterate

A

deep-rooted; ingrained; habitual

189
Q

Involute

A

intricate; complex; convoluted

190
Q

Itinerate

A

To travel from place to place; to peregrinate

191
Q

Jejune

A

Vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile

192
Q

Jibe

A

To agree; to be in accord

193
Q

Jocose

A

Humorous; gay; blithe

194
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Jocular

A

Humorous; gay; blithe

195
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Labile

A

Readily open to change; unstable

196
Q

Lachrymose

A

Causing tears; tearful

197
Q

Lambaste

A

To censure; to excoriate; to berate

198
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Lassitude

A

Listlessness; languor; weariness

199
Q

Libertine

A

Someone who is unrestrained by morality or convention

200
Q

Limn

A

To draw; to utilize in detail; to delineate; to describe

201
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Limpid

A

Transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid

202
Q

Lubricious

A

Lewd; wanton; greasy; slippery

203
Q

Luculent

A

Easily understood; lucid; clear

204
Q

Macerate

A

To waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping

205
Q

Maculate

A

Marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure

206
Q

Malinger

A

To feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid work

207
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Maunder

A

To digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path

208
Q

Mellifluous

A

Sweetly flowing, usually used to describe use of words

209
Q

Mendicant

A

Beggar; supplicant

210
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Meretricious

A

Cheap; gaudy; tawdry; flashy; showy

211
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Metamorphose

A

To transform; to change utterly

212
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Mettle

A

Strength of spirit; courage; stamina

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Mettlesome

A

Courageous; high spirited

214
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Militate

A

To have weight; to bear on; to argue against

215
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Minatory

A

Menacing; threatening

216
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Misogynist

A

One who hates women/females

217
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Multifarious

A

Varied; motley; greatly diversified

218
Q

Nadir

A

Low point; perigee

219
Q

Natty

A

Trimly neat and tidy; smart

220
Q

Nexus

A

A connection, tie or link

221
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Noisome

A

Offensive, especially to ones sense of smell; fetid

222
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Nonplused

A

Baffled; In a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do

223
Q

Nostrum

A

Panacea; cure all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative

224
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Nugatory

A

Trifling; inconsequential

225
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Obloquy

A

Abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny

226
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Obstreperous

A

Noisy; loud

227
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Officious

A

Meddlesome; pushy in ones services

228
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Ossified

A

Tending to become more rigid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

229
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Ostensible

A

Seeming; appearing as such; professed

230
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Overweening

A

Presumptuously arrogant; supercilious; overbearing

231
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Palliate

A

to make something appear less serious; to gloss over

232
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Panegyric

A

formal praise; eulogy; encomium

233
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Paradigm

A

a model, example, or pattern; exemplar

234
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Pariah

A

an outcast; a rejected and despised person

235
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Parry

A

to block; to evade or ward off, as a blow

236
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Parsimonious

A

cheap; miserly

237
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Partisan

A

committed to a party; biased or prejudiced; supporter; adherent

238
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Paucity

A

scarcity; a lacking of

239
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Peccadillo

A

a slight offense; literally, a minor sin

240
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Pellucid

A

transparent; easy to understand; limpid

241
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Penchant

A

strong inclination; a liking

242
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Peregrination

A

traveling about; wandering

243
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Peremptory

A

admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious

244
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Perigee

A

closest or lowest point in an orbit; nadir

245
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Peripatetic

A

itinerant; traveling; nomadic

246
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Peroration

A

the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech

247
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Personable

A

pleasing in appearance; attractive

248
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Petrous

A

like a rock; hard; stony

249
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Petulant

A

impatient; irritable

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Philistine

A

a crass individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic value

251
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Phlegmatic

A

impassive; stoical; lethargic; sluggish

252
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Picaresque

A

involving clever rogues or adventurers

253
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Pillory

A

to punish; to hold up to public scorn

254
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Piquant

A

agreeably pungent; stimulating

255
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Pique

A

resentment; to annoy, irritate, or often; to excite, provoke, or arouse

256
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Plangent

A

pounding; thundering; resounding

257
Q

Plumb

A

to measure the depth; to examine critically

258
Q

Poignant

A

distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional

259
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Poseur

A

affected or insincere person; literally, a poser

260
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Prate

A

to chatter; to babble, as in prattle

261
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Precarious

A

uncertain; risky; dangerous

262
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Precept

A

rule establishing standards of conduct

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Precis

A

concise summary of essential points

264
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Preempt

A

to replace;to supersede; to appropriate

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Profligate

A

spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant

266
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Prolix

A

long-winded; verbose

267
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Propinquity

A

nearness in time or place; affinity of nature

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Propitiate

A

to appease; to conciliate

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Proscribe

A

to ostracize; to banish; to outlaw

270
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Provident

A

frugal; looking to the future

271
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Puerile

A

childish; immature

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Pugnacious

A

contentious; quarrelsome; contumacious; given to fighting; belligerent

273
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puissane

A

power; strength

274
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Punctilious

A

precise; paying attention to trivialities; especially in regard to etiquette,

275
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Pundit

A

an authority on a subject; one who gives opinions

276
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Pusillanimous

A

cowardly; craven

277
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Querulous

A

habitually complaining; whining

278
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Raffish

A

tawdry; flashy; meretricious; low; vulgar; base

279
Q

Ramify

A

to be divided or subdivided; to branch

280
Q

Rapacious

A

voracious; greedy; plundering

281
Q

Rebus

A

riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols

282
Q

Recidivism

A

relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior

283
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Recondite

A

abstruse; profound; arcane

284
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Reconnaissance

A

preliminary survey to gain information, especially of an enemy

285
Q

Reconnoiter

A

to engage in reconnaissance

286
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Recreant

A

coward; cowardly; craven; pusillanimous

287
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Recumbent

A

leaning; resting; prone

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Redolent

A

fragment; suggestive or evocative

289
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Refractory

A

stubborn; unmanageable; intractable; unruly; fractious

290
Q

Regale

A

to delight or entertain; to feast

291
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Remonstrate

A

to protest; to object

292
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Repine

A

to feel or express dejection or discontent; to long for

293
Q

Repudiate

A

to disown; to disavow; to reject as untrue

294
Q

Resolute

A

adamant; steadfast; determined; irresolute

295
Q

Rubric

A

heading, title, or category

296
Q

Rue

A

to regret; to feel remorse or sorrow

297
Q

Runic

A

mysterious; magical

298
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Sagacious

A

having sound judgement; perceptive; wise

299
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Salacious

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Salient

A

prominent; protruding; conspicuous; relevant

301
Q

Salutary

A

wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health

302
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Sanctimony

A

self-righteousness

303
Q

Sanguine

A

cheerful; confident; optimistic

304
Q

Satiate

A

to surfeit; to overindulge

305
Q

Saturnine

A

gloomy; dark; sullen; morose

306
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Seine

A

a large net dragged to catch fish

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Seminal

A

like a seed; constituting a source; originative

308
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Sententious

A

aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

309
Q

sidereal

A

astral; relating to stars or constellations

310
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Simper

A

to smirk; a silly smile

311
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Sinecure

A

position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income

312
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Sinuous

A

winding; undulating; serpentine

313
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Sake

A

to satisfy or quench

314
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Sodden

A

soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull

315
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Solder

A

to weld, fuse, or join

316
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Sophistry

A

fallacious reasoning; faulty logic

317
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Sophomoric

A

self-assured through immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity

318
Q

Splenetic

A

bad-tempered; irritable

319
Q

Stanch

A

to stop the flow of a fluid

320
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Stentorian

A

extremely loud and powerful

321
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Striated

A

striped; grooved; banded

322
Q

Stygian

A

gloomy; dark

323
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Succor

A

assistance; relief in time of distress

324
Q

Sundry

A

various; miscellaneous; separate

325
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Supercilious

A

disdainful; arrogant; haughty

326
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Supine

A

mentally or morally slack; literally; lying on one’s back; prone

327
Q

Suppliant

A

supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching

328
Q

Supplicant

A

beggar; mendicant

329
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Tamp

A

to plug; to drive in order down by a series of blows

330
Q

Tautology

A

a repetition; a redundancy

331
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Tawdry

A

cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious

332
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tendentious

A

biased; showing marked tendencies

333
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Timorous

A

timid; fearful; diffident

334
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Toady

A

sycophant; flatterer

335
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Torrid

A

scorching; ardent; passionate

336
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Tractable

A

docile; obedient; easily led

337
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Travesty

A

mockery; caricature; parody

338
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Tumid

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Turbid

A

roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque

340
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Turgid

A

swollen; tumid; thick; pompous; bombastic

341
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Turpitude

A

depravity; prurience

342
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Tyro

A

Novice; greenhorn; rank amateur

343
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Umbrage

A

offense; resentment; pique

344
Q

Undulate

A

to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate

345
Q

Untoward

A

perverse; unruly; unseemly

346
Q

Upbraid

A

to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise

347
Q

Usury

A

the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest

348
Q

Vaunt

A

to brag or boast

349
Q

Venal

A

capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable

350
Q

Venerate

A

to revere; to worship[

351
Q

Verisimilitude

A

appearance of truth or reality

352
Q

Veritable

A

authentic; honest to goodness

353
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Virago

A

a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag

354
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Vitiate

A

to pervert; to debase; to spoil; to make ineffective

355
Q

Volubility

A

fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoke language

356
Q

Waft

A

to cause to move as if by a light breeze

357
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Welter

A

to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil

358
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Wend

A

to go; to proceed; to walk

GRE Vocabulary (3 decks)

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